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Chapman, The Seaside Sparrows. 
TAuk 
Ljan. 
Dr. Faxon had shown, he figured and described specimens col- 
lected near Charleston by Dr. Bachman. In support of this 
statement see Volume II, page 285 of the Ornithological Biog- 
raphy, on which Audubon states that Bachman presented him with 
a dozen specimens of this Sparrow collected near Charleston, where 
J. W. Audubon made the drawing which was afterward published 
in the fourth volume of the ‘ Birds of America.’ No mention is 
made in Volume II of Texas and Louisiana, where the bird was 
evidently not discovered until several years later, being first 
recorded from these States in Volume IV, page 394, of the 
‘Ornithological Biography,’ published in 1838, or four years 
after the description of ‘ Fringitta macgilUvraii' from Charleston. 
The specimen upon which this description was probably based 
is now in the U. S. Nat. Mus. (No. 2894) but is without date or 
locality. It is a young bird in first plumage, of the same age as 
the specimen taken at Mt. Pleasant, S. C., Aug. 10, 1893, from 
which it differs no more than do immature specimens of mariti- 
mus from one another. 
If this view of the case be accepted it will permit us to give 
the Louisiana bird a name of its own, a course which the speci- 
mens involved seem to warrant. And I therefore propose to 
name it in honor of Dr. A. K. Fisher who, after Audubon, was 
the first ornithologist to secure specimens of the Louisiana bird. 
Hence we have 
Ammodramus maritimus fisheri, subsp. nov. 
Ammodramus macgillivraii Aud. (in part) Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 394. 
Ammodramus maritimus macgillivrayi Ridgw. Manual N. A. Birds, 
2d Ed., 1S96, App. 603. 
Ammodramus maritimus peninsula; Allen (in part), Auk, V, 1888, 284. 
Ammodramus maritimus ■ pcniusulee ? Chapm. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 
Hist., III. 1S91, 324. 
Char. Subsp. — Upper parts deep black, in fresh plumage the feathers 
bordered by mummy brown and margined with bluish gray, the breast 
and flanks streaked with black and more or less heavily washed by pale 
ochraceous. 
Type, No. 163,722, U. S. Nat. Mus. Collected by A. K. Fisher, M. D. 
Collector’s number No. 2622, $ ad., egg in oviduct, Grand Isle, Louisiana, 
June 9, 1886. 
